<p>AP's i've taken:
AP chemistry, APcalc bc, AP us history, AP computer science A, AP physics B, AP English language and comp.
Senior year schedule: AP english literature and comp, AP biology, AP psychology, AP physics C, AP economics, AP government(second semester). </p>
<p>my gpa is a 4.33. i know that UC's recalculate your gpa, and since i've taken so many aps, my gpa will be lower beacuse they take up to 8 semesters.</p>
<p>i've also taken calculus D and Linear Algebra at a state university.</p>
<p>i've got some EC's but i dont wanna list them.</p>
<p>so far, my SAT's are not that great, but i hope to improve them to at leat 2050 or 2100. what are my chances as my SAT score is now 1930? SATII is also low or average. mat2 is 710 and chemistry is 710.</p>
<p>sat2 chem is 720 actaully. um sat scores isnt everything for engineering, although i understand my standardized test scores are average to the low side. i always viewed sat as a test that they just wanted to see. i dont know..</p>
<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB/UCLA: Reach (Engineering)
UCSD: Slight Reach (Engineering)
UCI/UCD/UCSB: Safe Match
UCSC/UCR/UCM: Safety</p>
<p>im sure i can get into UCSD's engineering, just UCLA and UCB are reaches. People say i have a decent shot at ucla though. do you know if ucla or ucb offer alternative majors?</p>
<p>When I was a accepted in 03 I had stats like this:</p>
<p>GPA: 4.4
SAT I:
M: 730
V: 710
SAT II:
Writing: 580 (Yeah, I know)
IIC: 750
World History: 760
Chem: 710</p>
<p>APs:
Chem - 5
Euro History - 5</p>
<p>Community College Classes (instead of doing APs):
US History - A
Poli Sci - A
Art History - A</p>
<p>Senior year I took AP Econ (both macro/micro), AP World History, and AP Physics B. Along with Calc at the local community college.</p>
<p>Also involved in sports and other extra curriculars. Nothing major though. As you can see, we have similar scores, but I feel that perhaps things are more difficult now than then.</p>
<p>yeah its harder. do AP scores matter much when they consider u for engineering?</p>
<p>calc bc-5
physics B-3
chemistry-4
computer science-4
english language-4
us history-2(yeah, i know)</p>
<p>i think my extra currics are alright, they jus wanna see commitment to 2 or 3 and i have that. i have/will be completing 14 AP/college courses. my gpa is 4.33 as i said..whats wrong with that? flopsy says uci/sb/davis is match. i think im definitely capable of better.</p>
<p>The two easiest schools I applied to were UCSB & Cal Poly SLO (others were UCB, UCLA, & UCSD). I viewed those as safeties and wasn't concerned in the slightest. If you were 2100 level on the SATs I'd your chances much more. Those SAT II scores are perhaps a little low. However, I'd say UCSD is more of a match than UCSB, et al.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, what YOU think isn't what adcoms think. Don't fool yourself into imagining a world where you can sorta wish away the importance of scores.</p>
<p>Oh, and AP scores are a very small component, if at all.</p>
<p>and uclari, i see your point. thank you. i've read in a book that, to admission officers, the SAT is worth less than we think, but worth more than admission officers say. in fact, i've seen it in a lot of admission books, UC included. however, i really cant tell how much it is worth.</p>
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<p>I never thought my AP experiences were even remotely like what I experienced at UCLA as an undergrad, to be honest. Then again, neither was the SAT.</p>
<p>Something tells me that a cabal of fairly smart people have managed to track the correlations, though.</p>
<p>UCLAri, I guess I have been led to believe wrongly. :)</p>
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Many high school and college educators surveyed by Sadler and Tai cited the value of AP courses, widely regarded as the most rigorous offered in most high schools. But college students in this study who had taken AP science courses, scored a 5 on the exam, and then took an introductory college course in the same discipline averaged a college grade of only 90, even after the added study at the college level. Students with an AP score of 4 averaged 87 in freshman science courses in the same subject, students who scored a 3 averaged 84, and students who took a non-AP high school honors course averaged 82. Sadler and Tai attributed roughly half the difference between these grades and the mean college grade of 80 to background variables unrelated to taking an AP course.</p>
<p>"In general, it appears that the educational benefits of an AP science course as opposed to a regular high school honors course are smaller than students and teachers have been led to believe," Sadler says. He advocates that colleges and universities tighten their awarding of AP credit, since many students currently use AP credit to avoid college science courses altogether.